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Dan Sugalski

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Nov 25, 2003, 11:58:18 AM11/25/03
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Folks,

I just committed a patch to disable the "Your program has crashed, want to
send a report to Microsoft" box that pops up on Win32 when Parrot
segfaults -- it blocks the automated test builds which as you might expect
happens with some regularity. :) However I'm not sure if this ought be the
default for parrot. (Though definitely an option)

Not being a Windows Guy, I'll defer the question to folks that do windows
programming -- what should the default be (on or off) and why?

Dan

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Vladimir Lipsky

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Nov 25, 2003, 9:20:50 PM11/25/03
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If it blocks the automated test builds, then just turning the box off is
okay. It must be admitted that, the truth is that I don't know anybody
who does send those reports

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Robert Spier

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Nov 26, 2003, 12:51:15 AM11/26/03
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At Wed, 26 Nov 2003 05:20:50 +0300,

Vladimir Lipsky wrote:
>
> If it blocks the automated test builds, then just turning the box off is
> okay. It must be admitted that, the truth is that I don't know anybody
> who does send those reports

More important -- is the Segfault reported in any other manner. If
not, thats bad.

-R

Jonathan Worthington

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Nov 26, 2003, 5:11:27 AM11/26/03
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The test shows up as failed.

Jonathan


Vladimir Lipsky

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Nov 26, 2003, 7:07:05 PM11/26/03
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It's not, I'm afraid

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Robert Spier

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Nov 26, 2003, 6:04:44 PM11/26/03
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> > More important -- is the Segfault reported in any other manner. If
> > not, thats bad.
>
> It's not, I'm afraid

Then this shouldn't be off by default.

Turn it off for automated testing. But in general use, I think you
want this on.

"Oh look. My program just went away. I wonder why?"

-R

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